A near-future England remade as a theocratic Recovery, sealed behind a hard border from a free Scotland. A family’s love measured against a state that has decided their child would be better off as someone else’s.
Literary dystopia for readers of The Handmaid’s Tale, Never Let Me Go, and Prophet Song. The trilogy is complete.
The trilogy is complete. All three books are available now.
The clock starts when they flag your child.
In a near-future England remade as a theocratic Recovery and sealed behind a hard border, the Mackays are the wrong sort of family. When eight-year-old Beth is flagged recoverable, the clock starts.
They give her a dead girl's name. They love her. That is the cruelty of it.
A child caught at the water is delivered to be remade into the daughter another family lost. A hundred miles north, her real mother works the smuggling roads to find which stream the regime sorted her into.
She has a dead girl's name and a seamless, perfect past. When they put her before the world, she will say her own words instead.
The regime will stage the largest act of public mercy in its history — a reconciliation before the cameras of the world, with its flagship restored child at the centre. She will say her own words instead.
Yes. The Wardenry is a continuous three-novel story. Begin with The Marches.
Yes. All three books are complete and available now on Kindle and in Kindle Unlimited.
The official paperwork that makes the world of The Wardenry run. The Assessment Form. The Placement Letter. The Rights of the Household. The documents are fictional. The bureaucratic logic is not.
Free PDF. The real physics under the novels.